Our Collective Becoming is a performative exploration of the cultural, ecological, and symbolic significance of gold. In images, performers embodied the material in its various states, tracing its path from geological formation to extraction and trade to iconization. An immersive soundscape I developed accompanied the performance, in which gold spoke as a sentient being, an archive of stories about worship and destruction. The work invites us to rethink our relationship with materials – not as mere resources, but as carriers of memory, power, and responsibility. For the installation, I prepared and dyed fabrics with carob – a natural dye whose seeds are considered the origin of the term “carat,” the unit of weight for gold and diamonds. This decision refers to the close historical intertwining of measurement, value, and raw material extraction and addresses the long history of exploitation—both of landscapes and of bodies. In addition to the performance, the sound and narrative could also be heard through headphones.​